Urban strategist Jeb Brugmann explains how cities best succeed

Jeb Brugmann is an urban strategist fascinated by the mass movement of people all over the world to cities.

Broadcast date: Thursday 19 August 2010

Jeb Brugmann advises cities all over the world on what works in a city and what's likely to fail.

He also sees the world's cities as one gigantic interconnected city and says these days, a clever new idea from a small city on one side of the globe can be quickly picked up and used by one on the other.

Jeb says when you get this process right you end up with something like Barcelona. When you get it wrong, it can end up like Detroit, which he describes as a ghost city where nature is reclaiming downtown.

Jeb's book is Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing the World.

First broadcast 08 October 2009

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